Marco Spear has been living in the Wheaton Park Apartments on Crescent Street for more than five years.

It is a largely uneventful neighborhood, he says, with the Prairie Path and railroad tracks separating him from the Wheaton College football field to the north.

“It’s a quiet area,” Spear said. “It’s almost all college kids.”

It came as a shock to him when one of his neighbors found a newborn baby just steps from Spear’s front door, in a grassy area behind a garage early Friday, June 12  morning.

Nunu Sung, 24, originally of Myanmar who had been staying at a cousin’s house in the area, has been charged with endangering the health or life of a child.

Sung was arrested over the weekend after police identified her as the mother of the child, who is now in stable health after arriving at the hospital Friday morning in critical condition.

Investigators say she gave birth to the child Friday morning and left the baby under a bush near her cousin’s house.

Sung also is facing two counts of obstructing justice and is being held at DuPage County Jail. She appeared in court for an initial hearing Monday, June 15 morning, where she was ordered held on $100,000 bond.

Sung’s next court date is June 25. Prosecutors will seek a court order for a mental health examination of Sung, according to a DuPage County state’s attorney’s office news release.

The baby was found at about 7:45 a.m. Friday outside of a house on the 800 block of East Michigan Street. Police identified Sung as a resident of Crescent Street, a three-block-long street immediately to the north.

Resident Joe Logan found the naked newborn with a portion of its umbilical cord still attached lying in the grass near a garage west of his home. He wrapped the baby in a towel and called police.

“The dog was barking, and the homeowner went out back to see what it was about,” Wheaton Deputy Police Chief Tom Meloni said at a press conference Friday afternoon.

Police called in paramedics who treated the baby and took him to a local hospital. Hospital officials initially reported the baby’s condition as “critical, but improving.”

Meloni said detectives had described the baby as “five pounds or so.”

Later on Friday, the baby’s condition was upgraded to stable.

Also that afternoon, police said they had identified the mother of the baby, though they did not immediately identify her. She was being interviewed by detectives while being treated at a local hospital, Meloni said Friday.

Wheaton police responded early Friday morning to a missing person report filed by Sung’s cousin with whom she lived.

“Unable to locate Sung, police officers returned to the home to find Sung at the residence,” the state’s attorney’s news release stated.

Michael Scalzo, a resident of the Wheaton Park Apartments on Crescent Street, said he woke up before 8 a.m. Friday to police cars and fire trucks near his apartment.

He said he saw paramedics carry a baby from the grassy area south of a five-car garage.

Scalzo said he walked home from a friend’s apartment at about 1 a.m. but did not hear anything.

Scalzo said many apartment buildings in the area are strictly for students at Wheaton College.

A spokeswoman for the college said that according to school records, Sung is neither a current nor a former student.